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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 27
Al Ghazali has another book, which goes hand in hand with this one, called
The Beginning of Guidance (Bidayat al-Hidayah), which Allah-willing will be
undertaken at a later time.
Al-Ghazali has sometimes been acclaimed in both East and West as the
greatest Muslim of his time and as the Proof of Islam and a great follower of
Prophet Muhammad, and he is by no means unworthy of that dignity. His
greatness rests above many on four things:
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1) He was the leader in Islam‟s supreme encounter with Greek philosophy, the
encounter from which Islamic theology emerged victorious and enriched, and in
which Arabic Neo-Platonism received a blow from which it did not recover.
2) During the revival of Greek philosophy in the middle ages, many Christians
(Nazarenes) were attracted and swayed by the persuasion of Greek logic. In an
The Beginning of Guidance (Bidayat al-Hidayah), which Allah-willing will be
undertaken at a later time.
Al-Ghazali has sometimes been acclaimed in both East and West as the
greatest Muslim of his time and as the Proof of Islam and a great follower of
Prophet Muhammad, and he is by no means unworthy of that dignity. His
greatness rests above many on four things:
9
1) He was the leader in Islam‟s supreme encounter with Greek philosophy, the
encounter from which Islamic theology emerged victorious and enriched, and in
which Arabic Neo-Platonism received a blow from which it did not recover.
2) During the revival of Greek philosophy in the middle ages, many Christians
(Nazarenes) were attracted and swayed by the persuasion of Greek logic. In an